Expression of Interest - FX Artist (Los Angeles)

About The Position

AGBO is seeking a talented FX Artist to join our Visual Effects (VFX) team. The FX Artist will help bring all forms of real-time FX to life and push the visual development of a high quality project. The Artist will develop an artistic vision of hand-crafted FX to be used in the Unreal Engine.

This is an Expression of Interest role.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Lead Artist and other departments to deliver spectacular quality visual effects.
• Provide technical setup, integration, and troubleshooting of performant FX in real-time.
• Paint FX textures from scratch and combine traditional hand-crafted art techniques with next gen shaders and materials to create a unique visual style for all types of FX (magic, water, fire, smoke, etc.).
• Document and communicate specifications and visual benchmarks to support the artistic vision to both studio and external artists.
• Will use sprite-based particle systems along with pixel and vertex shaders to build a wide variety of real-time special effects.
• Ability to use traditional visual effects software such as Maya, Max, Photoshop, Houdini, etc. along with proprietary tools to deliver high quality visual effects simulating real world physical elements.
• Read and write script code to sequence effects.
• Troubleshoot artistic, technical, and performance issues.

Qualifications & Skills

Additional Information

AGBO Labs, LLC is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education and experience.

The job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent to this position.